compt

From Latin comptus, past participle of comere (“to care for, comb, arrange, adorn”).

compt (comparative more compt, superlative most compt)

1. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) neat; spruce
   • 1623, John Vicars, Æneid:

     A compt, accomplished prince.

Variant of count.

compt

1. (obsolete) account; reckoning; computation
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt, /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own.

   • 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     it would be difficult for a youth of his age to follow the expositions of a practical lawyer, concerning actions of compt and reckoning, and of multiple-poindings, and adjudication and wadsets, proper and improper, and poindings of the ground and declarations of expiry of the legal.

From English comptroller.

compt

1. Alternative form of compt..

compt (third-person singular simple present compts, present participle compting, simple past and past participle compted)

1. (obsolete) To compute; to count or consider.
   • 1792, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, page 340:

     For some were warded in the Pittie-vault, some set caution to remove from the town, after they had compted and reckoned for their tavernry with their mistresses; […]

   • 1568, Bishops' Bible, Genesis 30:33:

     So shall my ryghteousnes aunswere for me in time to come: for it shal come for my rewarde before thy face. And euery one that is not specked and partie amongst the goates, & blacke amongst the sheepe, let it be compted theft in me.

   • a. 1535, Thomas More, Lady Fortune:

     The gyftes of fortune compt the, as borowed ware
     Who so delyteth to prouen and assaye

compt (plural compts)

1. Abbreviation of compliment

• “compt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

compt

1. alternative form of counten